• Crossover vehicles that look as if they would be great off-road, even though some of them actually lack the basic capabilities to do so, have been dubbed "faux-by-fours" by sneering off-road enthusiasts.

    BBC: Business

  • There is great excitement about RET - or road equivalent tariff - which is to start between the Western Isles and the mainland.

    BBC: 'Winter costs are now a worry'

  • Eastwood looked the natural replacement for Sean Long, sidelined with a broken jaw, as he kicked six goals from eight attempts to further lay claim to the number seven jersey when the former Great Britain scrum-half leaves Knowsley Road at the end of the season.

    BBC: Warrington 26-40 St Helens

  • One of the areas we visited was the Myanmar-India border, where our pedaling took us on the remnants of the great, but failed, India-Myanmar Friendship Road.

    FORBES: Burma's Second Chance For Trade With India

  • Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.

    BBC: Shopping in Chiang Mai

  • And not touching Fannie and Freddie, two of the biggest problems we have, seems to me to be a rather remarkable oversight or--as they say now in this day and age, this relatively new expression that's gained great currency--kicking the can down the road.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It's great to have such a long cycle route off-road.

    BBC: Olympic cyclist Dani King opens Hockley Viaduct bike route

  • The 100-mile approach gives great license to hit the road.

    BBC: Vancouver��s 100-mile food trail

  • For another, the Brawn appears particularly strong on slow corners, where the benefits of a diffuser - which creates downforce by accelerating the airflow under the car and effectively sucking it to the road - would not be as great as on faster corners.

    BBC: Brawn set to dominate F1

  • Travelers on Bukidon's north-south road pass through Franco Fortich barangay for settlers (named after the governor's great-grandfather), the municipality of Manolo Fortich (named after his grandfather) and Don Carlos town (named after his father).

    CNN: INSIDE STORY: PHILIPPINES

  • The 27-year-old was arrested days later in the Great Western Road area near the Oran Mor venue.

    BBC: Edward Sutherland, 27, jailed over Glasgow rape bid

  • The Great North Run is the world's most popular half-marathon road-running event, with more than 47, 000 competitors of all abilities.

    BBC: Haile Gebrselassie to make Great North Run debut

  • Few cities in Asia so represented the great cultural currents that crossed and re-crossed the continent along the Silk Road.

    BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

  • It was Thatcher who insisted that 'nothing can stop the great car economy' and her ministers who announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans'.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher: How PM legitimised green concerns

  • The black sand beach here is slim and runs directly next to the main road so it is not a great place to bring young kids - the beach can disappear entirely at certain points during high tide.

    BBC: Learning to surf in the land of giants

  • It's not going to be a kind of outline of the peace agreement that at least the Arab side had pressured for, but it will be at least a repetition of the - all the great intentions and plans of the past, such as the road map of 2002 that President Bush put forth.

    NPR: Low Expectations for a Mideast Peace Conference

  • Still, it's not a great way to start his road trip to Donnelley's modernized 500, 000-square-foot, 14-printing-press plant in Dwight, Ill.

    FORBES: Pressing For Change

  • Still, it's not a great way to start his road trip to Donnelley's modernized 45, 000-square-meter, 14-printing-press plant in Dwight, Illinois.

    FORBES: Pressing for change

  • High-tech road bikes cost a lot less than airplanes and they keep you in great shape.

    FORBES: Random Friday Thoughts

  • Another main road, north-west to Uganda, which should be one of Africa's great arteries, is pitted with craters often two feet deep, reducing traffic to little better than walking pace for stretches of 15km or so.

    ECONOMIST: Kenya

  • With them were their friends Todd Esherwood, 24, of Saxon Road, and 30-year-old Stuart Layden, of South Quay, both in Great Yarmouth.

    BBC: Ian Church

  • You can make all the great impressions in the world on paper, but where the rubber meets the road is when you meet someone face-to-face.

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